The Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) has brought in elephant communications to run a press office for its annual conference, held earlier this week in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the event, the elephant team conducted feature interviews with members, prepared broadcast media content, developed a photo library and supported social media engagement. The conference, which ran across two-days (10-11 October), tackled […]
Victoria Cross, managing partner at Instinctif Partners, argues that preparation for a crisis relies on collaborative communications. I chaired a panel debate recently for a room of technical product quality and safety experts on ‘Effective crisis communication’, and it got me thinking… How do we explain the real importance of crisis communication to those who think […]
In 2015, Sam Baker and Lauren Laverne, founders of The Pool, revealed their new multi-media platform for women “too busy to browse” to a packed out Gorkana media briefing. A year later, Baker says the platform is going from strength to strength, talks about which content is working best and asks PRs not to address her […]
The Co-op’s food business has appointed M&C Saatchi PR as its retained PR partner, after the convenience retailer announced that it was going back to “Being Co-op”. The “Being Co-op” initiative is looking to show its customers “what made The Co-op different and special for people in the first place”, and will see the return to its original […]
Corporate PR agency Rostrum has hired Karen Clark as an account manager and Chloe Brown and Gayle Tupaz as account executives across its corporate and professional services teams. Clark joins as an account manager in Rostrum’s professional services team. She will be responsible for working on a number of Rostrum’s accounts, including EY, LexisNexis Risk […]
Forster Communications has been selected by Shiva Foundation to help promote its work to tackle human trafficking and modern slavery in the UK. Established in 2012 by Shiva Hotels founder Rishi Sachdev and his wife Meenal Sachdev, Shiva Foundation looks to prevent human trafficking and slavery in the UK by working in partnership with individuals, […]
Global social media agency We Are Social has brought in Adjust Your Set’s Harvey Cossell as head of strategy. Cossell has spent the past three years as strategy director at Adjust Your Set, where he built the content agency’s strategic offer and planning team. While there, he also spoke at Cannes about the need for […]
Babel PR, an integrated technology PR and communications agency, has promoted Matt Humphries to UK MD. Humphries has been with Babel since 2008, and will now head up the London office. He has been leading the firm’s new business initiatives and telecoms practice and will now act as MD, supporting co-founders Ian Hood and Narelle Morrison with overseeing UK operations, […]
Abbie Sampson, head of news at Which?, will join Energy UK as a director of external affairs at the start of the new year. Sampson was previously chief press officer at 10 Downing Street. In her new role she will lead the press, public affairs and events teams at Energy UK, and will report to chief executive Lawrence Slade. […]
WHSmith has appointed Another Word Communications to provide PR support in the lead up to Christmas. The agency will report to Laura Wildish, marketing manager at WHSmith, and focus on the retailer’s seasonal product range in the lead up to the Christmas period. Wildish said: “Another Word impressed us with its response to our brief which […]